Hong Kong Ordinances

PARENT AND CHILD ORDINANCE - SECT 7

Provisions relating to the Secretary for Justice

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) On an application for a declaration under this Part the court may at any
stage of the proceedings, of its own motion or on the application of any party
to the proceedings, direct that all necessary papers in the matter be sent to
the Secretary for Justice.

(2) The Secretary for Justice, whether or not he is sent papers in relation to
an application for a declaration under this Part, may-

   (a)  intervene in the proceedings on that application in such manner as he
        thinks necessary or expedient; and

   (b)  argue before the court any question in relation to the application
        which the court considers it necessary to have fully argued.

(3) Where any costs are incurred by the Secretary for Justice in connection
with any application for a declaration under this Part, the court may make
such order as it considers just as to the payment of those costs by parties to
the proceedings. (Enacted 1993. Amended L.N. 362 of 1997) [cf. 1986 c. 55 s.
59 U.K.]